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 SIXTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. IV. C11. 217. 1923. 1435 CHAP. 217.-—An Act Estab1ish.1ng' standard grades o sums • mms deception in transactions in naval stores, regulating tlitlrein, and for otthlx P\¤’P°°°°· * ‘ ‘ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re reeentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembid, That, for con- N“"°1 stm "·°‘· vemence of reference, this Act may be designated and cited as “The Naval Stores Act." _ Sec. 2. That, when used in this Act- — ”°““‘“°"’· a) “Naval stores " means spirits of turpentine and rosin. N"¤l=*°¤¤· b) “Spirits of turpentine" includes gum spirits of turpentine T““’°“°“°°‘ and wood turpentine. (c) “Gum spirits of t1u·pentine " means spirits of turpentine made from gum (oleoresin) from a living tree. (d) “Wood turpentine " includes steam distilled wood turpentine and destructivel distilled wood turpentine. (e) “Steam distilled wood turpentine” means wood turpentine distilled with steam from the oleoresin within or extracted from the wood. (f) “Destructively distilled wood turpentine " means wood turpentine obtained in the destructive distillation of the wood. ) “Rosin " includes gum rosin and wood rosin. R°'*"‘- 2%) “Gum rosin " means rosin remaining after the distillation of gum spirits of turpentine. _ _ _ _ _ _ (i) ‘ lVood rosm ” means rosin remaining after the distillation of steam distilled wood turpentine. _ _ Pm (j) “Package " means ang container of naval stores, and mcludes °g°' barrel, tank, tank car, or other receptacle. _ Pam (k) “Person " includes partners ips, associations, and corpora- ’ tions, as well as individuals. (1) The term “ commerce " means commerce between any State, °"'“““"°· Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, and any place outside thereof; or between points within the same State, Territory, or possession, or the District of Columbia, but through ang place outside thereof, or within any Territory or possession or the District of Columbia. _ Smdm, Mn, Sec. 3. That for the purposes of this Act the kinds of spirits of sum. turpentine dedned in subdivisions (c), (e), and (f) of section 2 ,,,§§,‘§°,'§'§§}§f§d ,§"" hereof and the rosin types heretofore prepared and recommended under existing laws, by or under authority of the Secretary of Agriculture, are hereby made the standards for naval stores until other- Est mh ( wise prescribed as hereinafter provided. The Secretary of Agricul- m,..$.t.s,°‘°“'° “°“' ture is authorized to establish and promulgate standards for naval N stores for which no standards are herein provided, after at least °“‘“""°""“"·°‘°· three months’ notice of the proposed standard shall have been given to the trade, so far as practicable, and due hearings or reasonable opportunities to be heard shall have been afforded t ose favoring or opposing the same. No such standard shall become effective until Mom I after three months from the date of the promulgation thereof. Any mms.], °°° °” P"` standard made by this Act or established and promulgated by the P'°°°d“'°»°*°· Secretary of Agriculture in accordance therewith may be modified bv said Secretary whenever, for reasons and causes deemed by him sufficient. the interests of the trade shall so require. after at least six months’ notice of the proposed modifications shall have been given to the trade, so far as practicable, and due hearings or reasonable opportunities to be heard shall have been afforded those favor- Ffrmiw mn Sk ing or op osing the same; and no such modification so made shall moiiths. become effizctive until after six months from the date when made. mm The various grades of rosin. from highest to lowest, shall be _ cuties or, desdesignated. unless and until changed, as hereinbefore pfovided, by ‘g‘“"°d‘ the following letters, respectively: X, WW, WG. N. . K. I. H.